Safety in the manufacturing industry

Safety in the Manufacturing Industry

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Introduction

Safety is the state of being free from harm or danger of any kind Safety is usually achieved through careful planning and the removal of all vulnerable sources of danger or any other that are prone to arise The first step in the management of any environment to ensure that safety is achieved involves the identification of the potential sources of danger . An array of all the panic triggers is usually made and each is tackled

single-handedly . Failure to identify all the potential sources of danger may cause a lot of unforeseen harm (Stellman , 1998

In any workplace , there lie very many potential causes of harm and injury . The repercussions are likely to be very serious given that many places of work usually have hordes of people going about their business and most of the times many are oblivious of any form of lurking danger In case of any accident that may occur , the number of casualties in many places of work is likely to be very high . The effects of such accidents can however mitigated by the careful consideration of all factors by the planners and the devising of ways to deal with the accidents prior to their occurrence . Many of the hazards that may occur in most working places and cause loss of lives and damage of property includes fire floods , chemical explosions , release of poisonous gases and the risk of being shred by machines and being...